Managing end-entities

As explained in the previous sections, PKIaaS supports automating enrollment with different protocols such as ACME, MDM, IBM, or WSTEP. See below for the PKIaaS options for managing the end-entities requesting certificates.

ℹ This section does not explain integrating end-entities. Refer to the corresponding enrollment automation section for details.

To manage end-entities:

1. Follow the steps described in Accessing your partitions to log into the PKIaaS interface as a user with any of these roles:

   • Owners
   • CA Administrators

2. Click Enrollment Protocols in the sidebar.

   

3. Click the name of a enrollment protocol.

   

4. In the End Entities tab, browse the following end-entity details.

   • Identifier
   • Activation status
   • Expiration date

5. Click the three dots … right to an end entity and select:

   • View Entity to display the end-entity details
   • Activate Entity to activate a deactivated entity
   • Deactivate Entity to deactivate an entity
   • Decommission Entity to permanently remove an end-entity